Food insecurity: Limitations of emergency food resources for our patients

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 552-558

  Gany, Francesca ^a   Bari, Sehrish ^a   Crist, Michael ^b   Moran, Alyssa ^c   Rastogi, Natasha ^b   Leng, Jennifer ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Emergency food system; Food pantry; Food security; Immigrants; Medically ill; New york

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; FOOD ASSISTANCE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FOOD ASSISTANCE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK CITY; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84878730538     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-012-9750-2     Document Type: Article

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